Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Csepel Island industrial works, famed center of revolt, grimy threadbare workers were responding to the reiterated Communist propaganda that they were agents of the Horthy counterrevolution by addressing each other ironically as Baron, Count and Lord Bishop. It was said that those workers who had remained loyal to the People's Democracy-all six of them-had formed the Kadar government. There were grim jokes about children not getting their milk unless they surrendered their arms...
Child Villages. Damage from Russia's ruthless suppression of the revolt is estimated at $500 million. Russia has offered Kadar a $50 million stopgap loan (in convertible currencies) and promised a new $200 million loan for food grains, oil and raw materials. The Petofi Club, where the revolution sparked, has been replaced by the Tancsics Club, whose meager membership is made up of old Stalinist hangers...
...aesthetic criterion, however, is challenged most graphically by George Grosz. Sharp, biting, vitriolic, his satires often, as in "I Am The Boss," amount to a vulgar denial of aesthetics. Grosz succeeds in his attempt to revolt and disgust. His portrayals of lasciviousnes, corruption and wretchedness hit home with intended impact for they are executed in line and wash that are as sickly and depressing as their subjects...
...indeed paradoxical that Kurt Schwitters, representing the Dada school, created in contemptuous revolt against established canons of aesthetics, should appear at Busch-Reisinger this month as a champion of those very values. Gathering bits and scraps of color and print in the form of collages, Schwitters manipulates a poetic play of shape and hue, charming, intimate, yet positive and aesthetically unequivocal. Paul Klee's lithograph, "Destruction and Hope," not his best in that form, sings out with more hope than destruction because it contains more poetry than pathos...
...will become prime minister for a third time amidst simmerings of a new armed revolt against British rule in Northern Ireland...